Dropout: Randomly Drop Neurons
Force redundancy for generalization.
What Dropout Does
Dropout randomly turns off some neurons during each training step, so the network cannot lean on any single unit too heavily. 🎲
Why Random Drops Help
By dropping neurons at random, dropout forces the network to build redundant paths, which spreads knowledge and improves generalization.
All lessons in this course
- Read the Train/Val Gap
- Dropout: Randomly Drop Neurons
- Batch Norm & Layer Norm
- Data Augmentation as Free Data